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Park Chan Wook, known for beloved films like Old Boy, Lady Vengeance, Handmaiden and my personal favorite film for 2025, No Other Choice, seems to be preparing a Western film with well-known Hollywood actors! Let's hope we finally see him at the Oscars because his last movies totally deserved more recognition and nominations.

The Brigands of Rattlecreek” is described as “an iconic tale of vengeance and retribution set in the American West.” A synopsis of the project explains: “A capstone of the themes Park Chan-wook has plumbed across his entire body of work to date, the film is an emotionally explosive and visually stunning meditation on the consequences of violence, the value of family, the power of memory, and the true cost of life.”

Because many Greeks and foreigners do not see the mistakes and failure that the Oddysey seems to be, here I give you an example of how I wish it had been!

Just imagine if Robert Eggers had the money and the freedom to make something like the Northman but for ancient Greece! He was the director that came to mind for such an epic as the Odyssey.

The Northman is the most historically accurate Viking film that exists from an American director. The costumes and materials are based on archaeological finds. The spiritual and supernatural elements of the Norse are aptly depicted. The actors "pass" for Norse, they don't have to be. The dialogue is in English but remains poetic, as befits a period film with a mix of foreign languages ​​to take you on a journey. The location is in Ireland, but you don’t feel it's wrong

So it’s a case of a Hollywood director paying attention to historical details and respecting the culture, trying to put you in the world, the era. Robert Eggers has built almost his entire filmography on the idea that horror and myth work more powerfully when they seem “true” culturally and historically. In The Northman this reaches its peak, because he didn’t just want a “Vikings movie”, but a representation of how the world might have felt through the eyes of people in the 10th century.